Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess! — Anna Dello Russo Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image